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How do we best understand the set of power relations between governments, corporations and civil society in a globalized world that keep us on unsustainable pathways? How do we transform these relations?
Posted on August 12th, 2009Categorized as Social Science, Social-Ecological Systems Tagged as development pathway, power relations
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The key reason why we face so many ecological and human crises is because we are locked into development pathways sustained by certain power relations in this world. It is thus imperative to understand these relations in order to know how to tackle and transform them. Obstacles include diverse and conflicting conceptual models in the social sciences on how best to understand the operation of power in a globalized world. Obstacles also include a serious dearth of funding for such research, and an overwhelming importance given to economics amongst the social sciences (which does not address issues of power).
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What modes of reorganisation of politics, economy and society could we envision in order to prevent global environmental catastrophe and the attendant conflicts?
Posted on September 3rd, 2009Categorized as Interdisciplinary, Social Science, Social-Ecological Systems Tagged as consumption, power relations, production, re-organization, social organization, systemic collapse
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At the root of the global environmental crisis are systems of organisation of society – production, consumption and power relations – which have led us to the increasingly unsustainable state in which we find ourselves. Clearly, it is within our reach to rethink the models of development and social organisation that we have followed to date in order to overcome the cumulative diificulties that now threaten systemic collapse.
